Basic Java Language: Difference between revisions
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Everything in Java is | Everything in Java is specified inside classes. Classes are bodies of statements, methods, and variables. A statement can be thought of as the smallest standalone element of an imperative programming language (or a language that explicitly specify an algorithm to achieve a goal, opposed to declarative programming, which explicitly specifies a goal and leaves the implementation of that goal to algorithms within the support software). A program is formed by a sequence of one or more statements (e.g. if x, then y). A statement will have internal components (e.g. expressions). A method usually consists of a sequence of statements to perform an action, a set of input parameters to customize those actions, and possibly an output value (called return value) of some kind. There is a method called main that all classes have. This is the start point of your program - where everything must begin. To create a class, the syntax (or basic outline in code) is: | ||
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[Protection] class [Name] [Extend/Implements...] | [Protection] class [Name] [Extend/Implements...] | ||